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El poder de los hábitos: Por qué hacemos lo que hacemos en la vida y los negocios
by Charles Duhigg“Hay pocos libros que se convierten en manuales esenciales de vida. Este es uno de ellos”. — Financial Times En El poder de los hábitos, el premiado periodista Charles Duhigg nos lleva al límite de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos, cómo nos condicionan y cómo cambiarlos. Duhigg ofrece una gran cantidad de información en una fascinante narrativa que nos lleva a las salas de reuniones de Procter & Gamble, a las gradas de la NFL, y hasta al movimiento por los derechos civiles, y presenta una manera completamente nueva de entender la naturaleza humana y su potencial. En esencia, El poder de los hábitos contiene un mensaje estimulante: la clave para hacer ejercicio con regularidad, perder peso, ser más productivo y conseguir el éxito consiste en entender el modo en que funcionan los hábitos. Como demuestra Duhigg, si somos capaces de sacar partido a este nuevo método, conseguiremos transformar nuestra vida laboral, social y personal.
El poder de los hábitos
by Charles DuhiggHay pocos libros que se convierten en manuales esenciales de vida. Este es uno de ellos. Financial Times En El poder de los hábitos, el premiado periodista Charles Duhigg nos lleva al límite de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos, cómo nos condicionan y cómo cambiarlos. Duhigg ofrece una gran cantidad de información en una fascinante narrativa que nos lleva a las salas de reuniones de Procter & Gamble, a las gradas de la NFL, y hasta al movimiento por los derechos civiles, y presenta una manera completamente nueva de entender la naturaleza humana y su potencial. En esencia, El poder de los hábitos contiene un mensaje estimulante: la clave para hacer ejercicio con regularidad, perder peso, ser más productivo y conseguir el éxito consiste en entender el modo en que funcionan los hábitos. Como demuestra Duhigg, si somos capaces de sacar partido a este nuevo método, conseguiremos transformar nuestra vida laboral, social y personal.
El poder de los introvertidos: En un mundo incapaz de callarse
by Susan CainUn libro que rompe paradigmas y demuestra la manera dramática en la que nuestra cultura ha malentendido y subestimado a los introvertidos, y que además provee las herramientas con las cuales aprovechar sus fortalezas.Al menos un tercio de tus conocidos son introvertidos. Aquellos que prefieren escuchar a hablar; leer a salir de fiesta; aquellos que prefieren trabajar solos a formar parte de un equipo. Muchas veces descritos como &“callados&”, es a los introvertidos (Rosa Parks, Chopin o Dr. Seuss, por ejemplo) a quienes debemos muchas contribuciones a nuestra sociedad, desde los girasoles de Van Gogh, hasta la invención de la computadora personal. Apasionadamente escrito, investigado y repleto de historias de gente real, El poder de los introvertidos cambiará para siempre la manera en la que vemos a los introvertidos, y mejor aún, como ellos se ven a sí mismos. Susan Cain analiza el alza del Ideal Extrovertido durante el siglo XX y explora la manera profunda en que ha llegado a permear nuestra cultura. A través de investigación en la biología y psicología del temperamento, este libro provee diferentes ejercicios que nos benefician a todos, incluyendo ejemplos de cómo socializar si odias hablar de trivialidades, como modular tu personalidad dependiendo de las circunstancias, y como empoderar a los pequeños introvertidos.
El poder de los introvertidos: En Un Mundo Incapaz De Callarse
by Susan CainUn libro que rompe paradigmas y demuestra la manera dramática en la que nuestra cultura ha malentendido y subestimado a los introvertidos, y que además provee las herramientas con las cuales aprovechar sus fortalezas. Al menos un tercio de tus conocidos son introvertidos. Aquellos que prefieren escuchar a hablar; leer a salir de fiesta; aquellos que prefieren trabajar solos a formar parte de un equipo. Muchas veces descritos como callados, es a los introvertidos (Rosa Parks, Chopin o Dr. Seuss, por ejemplo) a quienes debemos muchas contribuciones a nuestra sociedad, desde los girasoles de Van Gogh, hasta la invención de la computadora personal. Apasionadamente escrito, investigado y repleto de historias de gente real, El poder de los introvertidos cambiará para siempre la manera en la que vemos a los introvertidos, y mejor aún, como ellos se ven a sí mismos. Susan Cain analiza el alza del Ideal Extrovertido durante el siglo XX y explora la manera profunda en queha llegado a permear nuestra cultura. A través de investigación en la biología y psicología del temperamento, este libro provee diferentes ejercicios que nos benefician a todos, incluyendo ejemplos de cómo socializar si odias hablar de trivialidades, como modular tu personalidad dependiendo de las circunstancias, y como empoderar a los pequeños introvertidos.
El poder sanador del silencio: Transforma tu mente y alcanza el bienestar a través de la meditación
by Belén ColominaLa psicóloga Belén Colomina nos invita a entrenar la mente con la práctica de la meditación y a descubrir en el silencio de la calma la puerta para transformar el sufrimiento en bienestar. La ansiedad, la angustia, el insomnio o la ira - cada vez más frecuentes - nos atrapan en estados de inquietud, miedo o desesperanza, una sensación de vacío que nuestra mente insiste en llenar de amenazas. Encarcelados por los pensamientos negativos, vamos haciendo ajustes disfuncionales que perpetúan el sufrimiento. Sin embargo, tenemos la capacidad de adquirir sabiduría y habilidad en el adiestramiento mental, para transitar ese dolor, aliviarlo y cultivar el bienestar. A lo largo de este libro, Belén Colomina te acompañará en tus primeros pasos en la meditación y te mostrará cómo profundizar en el conocimiento de la propia mente. Un camino de exploración interna para transformarte desde el silencio de la calma. Un entrenamiento mental mediante el cual sembrar estados de serenidad y estabilidad que te permitirán detener el sufrimiento, y aumentar la satisfacción vital. A través de diferentes prácticas de meditación, la autora nos enseña: * Cómo cultivar la calma, la (auto) compasión, la observación y el autoconocimiento, * Cómo alejarnos de aquello que nos provoca dolor: el autosabotaje, el egocentrismo, las distorsiones cognitivas. * Cómo entrenar nuestra mente para cambiar patrones y hábitos, romper condicionamientos, y encontrar el equilibrio mental y emocional para una vida plena.El poder sanador del silencio te devuelve al presente, a ese instante en que puedes recuperar el control de tu vida, reconducirla y vivirla armónica y plenamente. Reseñas:«Belén logra la maestría en su disciplina porque reúne cualidades extraordinarias que rara vez se encuentran en una sola persona, como el rigor científico y la expresión artística, la escucha empática y la aplicación pragmática. Esta combinación la convierte en una comunicadora inspiradora, una mentora bondadosa y una terapeuta muy efectiva y a la que recomiendo plenamente».Venerable Lama Rinchen Gyaltsen«El estado de nuestra mente determina la calidad de nuestra vida, y una de las herramientas más poderosas para mejorarlo es la meditación. Belén Colomina transmite como nadie la importancia de esta práctica y cómo iniciarse en ella. Y, por suerte, ha resumido todo ese conocimiento en este libro. Encontrarás teoría, motivación y mucha práctica. Si quieres mejorar tu mente, y tu vida, te aconsejo que leas El poder sanador del silencio».Marcos Vázquez, Fitness Revolucionario«Belén lleva años compartiendo su sabiduría en el ámbito de la psicoterapia y las ciencias contemplativas. Es un gran ejemplo de una práctica meditativa de calidad aplicada a los problemas psicológicos humanos. En este libro te acompañará, con su dulzura y buen hacer habituales, a través del maravilloso camino del cultivo de unamente más sabia, compasiva y armoniosa. Disfrútalo».David Alvear, psicoterapeuta, profesor de la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)y coautor del libro Psicología positiva contemplativa «Belén, uniendo su experiencia personal y clínica, ha escrito un maravilloso libro sobre meditación. Un libro profundo y a la vez sencillo en el que propone un viaje al corazón de la práctica meditativa. Se adentra en la esencia del silencio y la meditación como herramientasrevolucionarias para los retos del siglo XXI».Ausiàs Cebolla, profesor titular de Psicología de la Universidad de València (UV) y coautor del libro Psicología positiva contemplativa
Poe's Heart and The Mountain Climber: Exploring The Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture
by Richard RestakAre you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19 million Americans suffer from some form of acute anxiety. Poe’s Heart and the Mountain Climber tackles this situation head-on, with a fresh perspective and a straightforward approach to exploring and understanding our anxiety before it paralyzes us. After interviewing many experts on anxiety, and reflecting on his own many years treating anxious patients (as well as experiencing more than a few anxious moments himself), Dr. Richard Restak has organized this book around one primary principal: the best way to manage anxiety in these anxious times is to learn about it and put that learning to practical use. His message is vital and empowering: anxiety is not a mental illness that must require medication, but often a normal, biological response to stress. Anxiety is part of our genetic makeup. We wouldn’t be alive today if our ancestors had lacked the ability to anticipate dangers and threats. Anxiety is as natural a part of our existence as breathing, eating, or sleeping, and it is closely linked to our powers of reasoning. Unlike any other species, only we are able to envision future possibilities. As a result, we aren’t tethered to the here and now, but can imaginatively anticipate the good things that might happen to us. But we can also envision the bad things and, as a result, experience anxiety. We can’t have one without the other. Anxiety, therefore, isn’t something to be eliminated but, rather, something to be understood. Anxiety is only undesirable when it becomes extreme. This groundbreaking book teaches us to view anxiety not as a burden, but as a stimulus for greater accomplishment and enhanced self-knowledge. We will function at our best when we stop working to deny our anxiety or trying to escape it and instead learn to accept its presence in our lives and transform it into the positive, creative energy from which it stems.
The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations
by Chi Sum Garfield Lau Kelly Kar Yue ChanThis book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East–West exchanges and cultural dialogues. It explores the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific social norms and cultural products such as literature, film and any other forms of arts/genres, etc.In his 1917 work Mourning and Melancholia (Trauer und Melancholie), Sigmund Freud connected the grief of loss with melancholic emotions which may give rise to acts of mourning. He suggested that “[i]n mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself” (Freud, 1917: 246). Inspired by Freud’s stance and with the goal of providing up-to-date intellectual resources for academics, researchers and students with ardent interests in the varying exemplifications of grief and melancholy in Sino-Western contexts, the book serves more than a discussion over the pragmatic and ritualistic connections of grief and melancholy in relation to the inner self and the external world. It aims at the pursuit of a contemporary theorization of grief and melancholy beyond its modern limits.
A Poetics of Minds and Madness: Fiction, Cognition and Interpretation
by XINRAN YANGThis monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive science (cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology), it adopts an indirect empirical approach to the fictional representation of madness. The American writer Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is chosen as the primary text of investigation, whereas due consideration is also given to other madness narratives when necessary. This book not only demonstrates the value of reading and rereading literary classics in the modern era, but also sheds light on the studies of cognitive narratology, cognitive poetics, madness narratives and literature in general.
The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
by Iro FilippakiThe Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s. By identifying key postmodern literary tropes (paranoia, uncanniness, biomediation) as products of an overarching post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) narrative paradigm, this concise study reveals unexplored aspects of the canonical novels at hand—such as the link between individual and collective traumatization—highlights the presence of epic elements in postmodern narratives, and identifies the influence of emerging psychiatric treatment on the post-WWII novels at hand. Performing a medical humanities reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5 (1969), and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), this book introduces a novel way of examining trauma at the intersection of narrative, history, and medicine and recalibrates the importance of postmodern politics of transformation, while making the case for an aesthetics of trauma. By examining the historico-political developments that dictated the formation of PTSD in the wake of the wars in Korea and Vietnam, this book argues that the perception of PTSD symptoms directly influenced aesthetic and literary tropes of the Cold War era.
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard John R. StilgoeThirty years since its first publication in English, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams.
Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series)
by David ShaddockPoetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet’s imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis while making a lucid journey through 2,000 years of transformative poetry from Virgil, Dante and Blake to the contemporary poet Claudia Rankine. Patients enter treatment with the hope of being recognized and the hope for transformation of a painful experience. David Shaddock shows how poetry can guide psychoanalysts towards meeting that hope. The book is based on the proposition that an accurate recognition of what is leads to the opening of what could be. The imaginative space that opens between poem and reader or therapist and patient can be a place of healing and transformation. Poetry and Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in using literature and creativity as inspiration for both their clinical work and personal growth, as well as all who love poetry.
Poetry and Story Therapy
by Geri Giebel ChavisPoetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a skilled facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities to voice their truth, affirm their strengths, and find new ways of coping with challenges. This book explores the therapeutic possibilities of poetry and stories in turn, describing how to select appropriate works for discussion, and providing techniques for facilitating personally-relevent and growth-enhancing sessions. The author provides ideas and suggestions for personal writing activities that emerge from or intertwine with this discussion, and explains how participants can create their own poetic and narrative pieces using non-literary stimuli, such as music, photographs, paintings, objects, and physical movement. A useful appendix contains titles of individual poems, stories, and literary anthologies that the author has found particularly beneficial in her work, as well as useful further resources and contact details for readers who would like to train to be registered or certified poetry therapists or facilitators. Combining theory with innovative ideas for practical, experiential exercises, this book is a valuable tool for creative arts therapy students and practitioners, mental health and medical professionals, and anyone else interested in the healing possibilities of creative expression.
Poetry as Method: Reporting Research Through Verse (Developing Qualitative Inquiry #6)
by Sandra L FaulknerThis book takes an interdisciplinary approach to using and creating poetry for conducting and reporting social research. It includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises that will enhance the discussion of poetry writing as a method. When used as a teaching guide this book will encourage students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It also answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry, it combats the perception that poetry is too difficult or mysterious to use as research and that only poets should be concerned with poetic craft.
Poetry in Expressive Arts: Supporting Resilience through Poetic Writing
by Margo Fuchs Knill Sally AtkinsPoetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.The book offers both a guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to create hope and confidence, providing clients with a platform for healing, reconciliation, problem solving, and personal and professional development. Each chapter uses examples of poetry to illustrate the ideas of the chapter.With an outstanding contribution to the field of expressive arts theory and practice, this book is essential for people wanting to use an integrative arts-based approach to help their clients build resilience and foster sustainable, positive change in their lives.
Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
by Margaret KoehlerBy identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Pere Folch Mateu (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)
by Pere Folch MateuThe Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu. The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological, technical and theoretical issues approached in Folch Mateu’s unique style, providing an introduction to his impressive output. Folch Mateu integrates a wide range of psychoanalytic sources – Freud, Klein and Bion, and French psychoanalysis – in approaching topics like the psychoanalytic process, obsessive modes of control, the pathology of the negative and intellectual inhibition. The author’s interest in exploring the interactions between the analyst and the patient in minute detail through the course of the psychoanalytic process is a key theme that emerges throughout, as is his devotion to the intersections between music, literature and psychoanalysis. The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training, particularly those wishing to explore the boundaries of psychoanalysis and the integration of different psychoanalytic approaches.
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence
by John T. IrwinA study in how a poet’s corpus is remembered after he vanishes.Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days prior to picking up and moving to Mexico, none of his poetry, art, or criticism has since surfaced either north or south of the Rio Grande. Kees’s vanishing has led critics to compare him to another American modernist poet who met a similar end two decades prior—Hart Crane. In comparison to Crane, Kees is certainly now a more obscure figure. John T. Irwin, however, is not content to allow Kees to fall out of the twentieth-century literary canon. In The Poetry of Weldon Kees, Irwin ties together elements of biography and literary criticism, spurring renewed interest in Kees as both an individual and as a poet. Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to make sense of Kees’s fascination with death, disappearance, and the lasting interpretation of an artist’s work. Arguing that Kees’s apparent suicide was a carefully plotted final aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet’s disappearance as a lens through which to detect and interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poems—as the author intended. The first rigorous literary engagement with Weldon Kees’s poetry, this book is an astonishing reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.
Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice
by Nicholas MazzaFor decades, poetry therapy has been formally recognized as a valuable form of treatment, and it has been proven effective worldwide with a diverse group of clients. The second edition of Poetry Therapy, written by a pioneer and leader in the field, updates the only integrated poetry therapy practice model with a host of contemporary issues, including the use of social media and slam/performance poetry. It’s a truly invaluable resource for any serious practitioner, educator, or researcher interested in poetry therapy, bibliotherapy, writing, and healing, or the broader area of creative/expressive arts therapies.
Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice
by Nicholas MazzaIn this third edition of Poetry Therapy, Dr. Mazza expands on poetry therapy applications and techniques, carefully illustrating the use of poems, expressive writing, and symbolic activities for healing, education, and community service. Building on the definition and foundation of poetry therapy, chapters discuss using Mazza’s poetry therapy model with individuals, families, groups, and communities. Featuring over a hundred new references and practice experiences, the updated edition covers new research findings and methods, especially with respect to expressive writing and brain activity. Additional updates include working with special populations such as minorities, persons with disabilities, veterans, and the LGBTQ+ community. New chapters on spirituality, the COVID-19 pandemic, and personal development through poetry and running are also featured. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection. This is a truly invaluable resource for any practitioner, educator, or researcher interested in poetry therapy, bibliotherapy, writing, and healing, or the broader area of creative arts and expressive therapies.
Poetry, Therapy and Emotional Life
by Diana HedgesPoetry, Therapy and Emotional Life explores the thoughts of poets, therapists and counsellors in relation to the human condition with a practical component on how poetry can be used in therapeutic work. Concentrating on the theories of Freud, Jung, Rogers, Berne, Perls and Ellis, the book examines topics such as human motivation, experience and neurosis. It encourages readers to take a fresh and enthusiastic approach to their work as counsellors, therapists or writers, and appeals to anyone with a love of poetry or writing as a means of self expression. The text contains a wealth of poetic examples both traditional and modern, along with samples from clients in creative writing groups, schools and healthcare settings. Psychological therapists and counsellors, health and social care workers, and writers alike will find this very accessible book invaluable.
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
by Richard M. BerlinHonorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Psychology. Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.Poets on Prozac shatters the notion that madness fuels creativity by giving voice to contemporary poets who have battled myriad psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse.The sixteen essays collected here address many provocative questions: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity? Can treatment enhance inherent talents, or does relieving emotional pain shut off the creative process?Featuring examples of each contributor’s poetry before, during, and after treatment, this original and thoughtful collection finally puts to rest the idea that a tortured soul is one’s finest muse.
The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind
by Russell MearesHow did the human mind evolve and how does it emerge, again and again, in individual lives? In The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind, Russell Meares presents a fascinating inquiry into the origin of mind. He proposes that the way in which mind, or self, evolved, may resemble the way it emerges in childhood play and that a poetic, analogical style of thought is a biological necessity, essential to bringing to fruition the achievement of the human mind. Taking a fresh look at the language used in psychotherapy, he shows how language, and conversation in particular, is central to the development and maintenance of self. His theory incorporates the ideas from William James, Hughlings, Jackson, Janet, Hobson, Gerald Edelman, Wolf Singer, Vygotsky and others. It is illuminated by extracts from literary artists such as Wallace Stevens, W.S. Merwin, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad and Shakespeare. Encompassing psychotherapy; psychoanalysis; evolution; child development; literary criticism; philosophy; studies of mind and consciousness, The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind is an engaging, ground-breaking and thought-provoking work that will appeal to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as anyone interested in the emergence of mind and self.
Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul
by Stephen LevineStephen K. Levine argues that poiesis, the creative act, is also the act by which we affirm our identity and humanity; in exploring this subject he shows the essential affinity of the creative and the therapeutic processes and explores the nature of creative acts. This book looks in detail at the connections between expressive arts, such as poetry, and psychology and develops understanding of the theoretical foundations which connect the arts and psychotherapy. It considers the context in which modern therapy emerged and looks at various aspects of different arts therapies. It provides a much-needed step in the theoretical underpinning of the expressive therapies.
Point-of-Care Testing of COVID-19: Current Status, Clinical Impact, and Future Therapeutic Perspectives (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Abilash Gangula Brandon Kim Benjamin Casey Allison Hamill Hariharan Regunath Anandhi UpendranThis book highlights the role of point-of-care (POC) testing in the effective management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with an in-depth focus on the recent developments in the field, existing gaps, and future directions. POC tests are of utmost importance as they facilitate rapid and decentralized testing without much instrumentation and technical expertise. The book describes the current status of POC COVID-19 testing in three broad categories: Molecular, antigen, and antibody. The advantages, limitations, and adaption of each of the POC tests are reviewed while highlighting their clinical impact in real-world settings. The role of POC testing for COVID-19 screening, diagnosis, and surveillance has been emphasized. The subtle difference between POC and at-home tests is discussed while elaborating on the necessity for the latter for enhancing clinical impacts. A spotlight on the influence of variants on the performance of POC-COVID-19 tests is provided. The consideration of clinical implications of POC testing in hospitals with regards to improving therapeutic options, patient flow, enhancing the infection control measures, and early recruitment of patients into clinical trials is explained. Finally, the future perspectives that will aid the research community in the development of POC tests for COVID-19 or any infectious disease, in general, are presented. Overall, we believe this book can benefit the research community as it (i) presents a comprehensive understanding of current COVID-19 POC testing methods (ii) highlights features required to transform the current tests developed during the past year as POC diagnostics, and (iii) provides insights to address the unmet challenges in the field.
The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization
by A. H. AlmaasIn this book, the author explores the underlying spiritual understanding of narcissism. He presents a detailed map of the steps involved in working through barriers that prevent us from recognizing the most essential nature of our true identity.